Our Curriculum
At The Woodland Academy Trust, the curriculum is designed to: recognise children’s prior learning, provide first hand learning experiences, allow the children to develop interpersonal skills, build resilience and become creative, critical thinkers for now and in the future. We have high ambitions for all of our learners, providing equality of opportunity for all, with no pupil being at a disadvantage due to their background, additional learning requirements, disability, race or ethnicity. We achieve this by adopting a universal design for learning approach, using technology across our academies.
Every child is recognised as a unique individual. We celebrate and welcome differences within our school community, and embrace diversity in all its forms. The ability to learn is underpinned by the teaching of basic skills, knowledge, concepts and values, in a sequenced way.
We constantly provide enhancement opportunities to engage learning and believe that childhood should be a happy, investigative and enquiring time in our lives where there are no limits to curiosity and there is a thirst for new experiences and knowledge.
We use our personal development curriculum to promote positive attitudes to learning and wellbeing which reflect the values and skills needed to promote responsibility for learning and future success.
Children leave our Trust with a sense of belonging to a tightly knit community where they have the confidence and skills to make decisions, self-evaluate, make connections and become self-regulated learners, able to manage their emotions and take care of their wellbeing.
Community involvement is an essential part of our curriculum as we celebrate and learn about the local area and traditions, learning new skills to enable the children to take an active role in events throughout the year.
The Woodland Academy Trust teaching and learning model is linked to Rosenshine’s Principles and the use of Teaching Walkthrus by Tom Sherrington and Oliver Cavglioli. Our curriculum is bespoke to our Trust and is linked to Early Years Framework and National Curriculum.